There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

Students will practice converting verbs from past to present to future tense in statements that reveal truths about their lives.

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

This activity has students not only converting irregular verbs but also applying this skill by using irregular verbs in a story.

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

This creative writing activity has students not only converting irregular verbs, but also applying this skill to their very own writing.

Discover the different kinds of adverbs with this simple activity. Students will use different kinds of adverbs to complete sentences.

Get acquainted with a few different writing techniques with this fun prompt. Kids will start the same story in a few different ways.

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Your students will enjoy reading this messy story and finding the different sentence structures.

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

What if Pinocchio were a girl instead of a boy? How would the story be different?

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

Learn to identify different types of sentences with this informative fourth- and fifth-grade grammar worksheet! 

Kids will learn the different components of a prepositional phrase and use them to create strong sentences!

Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.

After reviewing the different parts of a persuasive paragraph, your fourth graders will outline their own persuasive paragraph.

Practice identifying and using verbs in the past, present, and future tenses as well as their progressive forms.

This volcano writing worksheet is a great story starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

This sheet will review the ways that writers can play with different text and font features for a variety of effects.

Celebrating the New Year is all about tradition, and it's different in every culture! Many common traditions are actually based on superstition.

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

Starting a story can be the toughest part of writing. Help your child flex their creativity by starting the same story in six different ways!

Third person narrative is one of the most common techniques used in storytelling. Help your young writer understand when to use "it" or "they" as they endeavor to write a personal narrative using the singular and plural forms of third person pronouns.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Can you think of a better word to use instead of "store"? Your student will expand his vocabulary by exploring different word choices, or synonyms.

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.